Light And Shading Tutorial

Light and Shading Tutorial

SAI to FireAlpaca translations

Basically for when you see some awesome tutorials and/or brush settings for SAI and you want to try replicating them in FireAlpaca (sort of)

SAI has a bunch of brush settings that aren’t available in FireAlpaca, so if you’re at a loss, you have to make due with ingenuity until FA improves with more Brush settings D: (Some settings and effects can be created with the help of a Bitmap, Scatter, or Scatter Watercolor Brush, if you know what effect you’re going for.)

In order to edit some of these settings, you usually have to make a new “Watercolor” style brush in FA.

“Stabilizer” (drop down option) = “Correction” (drop down option)

“Blending” in SAI = “Ease of Mixing Colors” in FA “Persistence” = “Load Color” “Density” = “Opacity” (although please note that in FA, opacity with Watercolor brushes is extremely tricky to manage. Even at a low opacity, brushes can still be pretty opaque, which can yield some undesirable results.) “Min. Size” = “Min. Width”

Press: (checkboxes) Dens., Size, Blend = “Opacity by Pressure”, “Size by Pressure” (Blend by pressure isn’t available as a setting)

Also, with Watercolor brushes, the hard/soft edge of a brush is usually an all-or-nothing sort of setting in FA. So good luck, and happy customizing!

FireAlpaca is now COMPLETELY a Paint Tool SAI alternative!

BITMAP WATERCOLOR BRUSHES, Y’ALL!!! Want to make some SAI brushes in FireAlpaca? Check out THIS handy Guide!

Want to make this brush? Just make a perfect circle and save it (I call mine “round”) and use it as the bitmap, and copy the settings above. It works pretty nicely :D

Fun shiny bubble letters

Use the fringe effect and a large round pen tool

Use the erase tool and make little shine spots^

Use airbrush to blend and add a extra shiny effects

For extra stuff, you can use preserve opacity to make a fun gradient, use binary for tiny, hard sparkles, and use a white pen to make the letters overlay, etc!

i want to eat it now

How to Prepare for Your First Artist Alley

I did my very first artist alley at AOD2015! I did a lot of research beforehand to help prepare, but one thing that I thought was missing from all the articles and blog posts I read was a step-by-step guide from the perspective of a beginner. So, I decided to put one together myself! I’m not entirely sure if this is the right way of preparing, but this is what I did and it worked for me.

If you’d like to know how I did it, read on!

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bec!! how do you do the inifinite loopy background thing? i dont know if youve answered this before but i wanted to do something like that too!!

I actually used a little trick that I learned years ago, but sadly I can’t find the tutorial anymore, so I’ll see if I can recreate it!

You make a new canvas with a relatively small size and make sure that it is a square! For this example, I used 300x300. And then try to cram everything in that one square.

Then you open up Photoshop and go to the Filters tab, find Other, and then select Offset (I believe CS2 and above is capable of doing this).

And then you mess with the numbers a bit.

I heard that setting the Horizontal and Vertical values to half of your canvas width and height might help (for example, 150 and 150 since my canvas size is 300x300). I haven’t tested it but you can definitely try it!

Hope this helps!